New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-27

tho average 1t Is not strange that the Senators
are misinformed as the Navy officials have taken
great pains to underrate the speed OF the vessel
Mr. Larry Donovan, now that no has jumped
successfully from three high bridges into the
water can afford to rest upon his laurels. And
while he is resting let him bear in mind that his
admiring countrymen expect him the next time ne
jumps to jump from monument. The general
feeling among his admirers is bhat he has out
grown bridges, that bridges arc no
longer worthy of his ambition. His
next downward dash for famo ought
to be from the top of the shaft on Bunker Hill,
or from the top of the tall column at the National
Capital that pcrpetuates the memory of Washing
ton. To be sure, il no makes either of these
iumrs the element upon which he will land will
NOT be the yielding water but the solid ground.
But that consideration OUGHT not to daunt the
bold spirit OF Donovan. Might he not better die
game jumping from n monument than 1--we TO en-
counter the popular contempt which sooner or
later oycrtakcs the jumper who stops at bridges
When one reads that the sheriff who is charged
with the duty Of HANGING Mrs. DruSc has been
ovcrrun with applications for permits to the exc
cut ion, he forcibly realizes how hdcOusly vulgar
is the share which morbid curiosity can assume
lst Governor Hill asserts that he did not read
Mayor IIcwitt's letter before that WashinSton's
Birthday dinner.
I'd A member Of the Young Mems Democratic
Club of Brooklyn asserts that Governor Hill did
read the letter before that Washington's Birthday
dinner.
Sd George Washington. in honor of whom the
dinner was given. never told lie.
To n,,O nv he
term Of tho present encumbent, will shortly
become vacant: 40. il has been sng-
gcstcd 10 the President that he give the office to
his friend the rejected Matthews, Of Albany.
The Democracy OF Buffalo ny last accounts had
not risen rs one man TO second the motion. but
their failure TO do may have been simply an
oversight. Considering the passionate love that
Matthews has inspired in the breast OF Mr. Cleye-
land there would DO something like poetic pro-
prieiy In an appointment which would Ink the
former TO the lattcrs home. sweet home. And
with this fact in mind IL would be graceful act
for "Ihc Buffalo Courier to write double
loaded BREWER commencing Matthews for this par
ticular postmastership.
"Thinll,v cNclans "1he Rochester Democrat
"of William II. Seward IIoratio Seymour max
ng such a speech as that lat Brooklynl Of Gov
crnor Hill" The Democrat ought not To
make such an impossible demand upon the i'm
agination OF its readers.
The woodman would appear TO spare the tree in
Monroe County. farmer Of that county com
plains 10 n reporter Of The Rochester POSt-EX-
prcss- That hc has enough bccchcs on his farm 10
mako $50 cords Of wood but is unable to hire
ANYBODY to lay an axe 10 the roots of them. We
advise this farmer to drop "A line to W. f. Glad
stone, inclosin, n stamp for reply. lie will make
short work OF those becchcs-if his engagements
will permit.
IL is tolcraby clear that good digestion did
not wait upon tho appetite with which the Young
Mems Democratic Club of Brooklyn attacked
that Washington Birhdny dinner. Their ape
tite would seem to have been waited upon by
heartburn In the fist degree, accompanied by
acute nausea.
"1hc Richmond Dispatch is the authority for
the statement that no cOlJrcd man can become
member Of the Stonccuticrs' Union OF that city.
The DISPATCH also furnishes the interesting III
formation that the Council Committee have not
deemed it wise to employ colorcd mechanics Oh
the new City Hall of Richmond. At the risk Of
bcing accused Of waving the bloody shirt and
opening the bloody chasm we venture TO remark
That IL seems to look though there IA color
line visible to the naked eye at Richmond.